Virtual SAN and the vSphere VSAN SPBM framework

VMware VSAN uses the vSphere VSAN SPBM framework to control how Horizon desktops utilize VSAN storage resources. When a Horizon desktop pool is created on a VSAN datastore, a set of default policies is created based on the recommended VMware guidelines. The policies shown in the following screenshot can be viewed by clicking on the VM Storage Policies icon on the vSphere Web Client home page. Note that these policies will not be created until after you provision a Horizon desktop pool that uses VSAN as a storage target.

In this figure, we see a number of different policies that were created for both floating and dedicated assignment linked clone desktop pools. The policies are applied automatically to each individual Horizon desktop when it is created, and they are applied directly to the desktop virtual hard disk to which they apply. Policies were created for the desktop OS disk (for persistent desktops), OS floating disk (for floating assignment...